greatforest10 Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 lift fights a feruchemist in WAT and vasher says she is a full feruchemist is this true or does she just have speed.
Treamayne Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 (edited) 22 minutes ago, greatforest10 said: lift fights a feruchemist in WAT and vasher says she is a full feruchemist is this true or does she just have speed. Axindweth is a Feruchemist Worldhopper, previously seen in the Venli/Eshonai Flashbacks of RoW and she has (apparently) been meddling on Roshar for years (she used Connection to speak the Listener Tongue in that flashback). She fled from the other known Feruchemist Worldhopper (Kholin Steward Gereh) and likely is the one who sold him out to Mraize, so he could be Spiked for an unknown power (RoW I-5). However, we do not know if she was also the Terris Worldhopper in Warbreaker. Nor do we know if she left Scadrial before the Catacendre, even earlier in TLR's reign, or possibly before even Alendi and Rashek's trip to the Well (depending on if she is Ageless; and, if so, how). RoW I-5: Spoiler He trailed off as they stumbled across the corpse. It was an old Alethi man in robes. He’d been killed with some kind of knife wound to the chest, and lay—his eyes open—on the ground. Blood on his lips. She turned away. She never had gotten used to this sort of thing. The chicken let out an angry screech, fluttering out of her hands to the man. Then—in perhaps the most heart-wrenching thing she’d ever seen—it began to nuzzle the corpse and chirp softly. It climbed into the crook of his dead arm and pushed its head against his side, chirping again, more worried this time. “I’m sorry,” Lift said, squatting down. “How did you know he was here?” It chirped. “You could feel him, couldn’t you?” she asked. “Or … you could feel where he’d been. You’re no ordinary chicken. Are you a Voidbringer chicken?” “Why,” Wyndle said, “do you insist on using that word? It’s horribly inaccurate.” “Shut it, Voidbringer,” she muttered at him. She reached over and carefully picked up the chicken, who had begun to let out pained chirps almost like words. Eerily similar to them, in fact. “Who was he?” she asked. “Wyndle, do you recognize him?” “I believe I’ve seen him before. A minor Alethi functionary, though his eyes are different now. Curious. Look at his fingers—tan skin with bands of lighter skin. He was wearing jewelry once.” Yes … thinking about it, she thought she recognized him. Hope that helps Edited January 13, 2025 by Treamayne SPAG 4
BinarySecond Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 I never considered that it was a spiking, rather than just a murder.
Treamayne Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 (edited) 8 minutes ago, BinarySecond said: I never considered that it was a spiking, rather than just a murder. Yeah, for me it was when we got to the Flashback Chapter of the night of Gavilar's death when I had the ah-hah moment: RoW: Spoiler RoW Ch 77: Quote “Bother,” he said. “What?” “Let me think, femalen,” he snapped. “What does it say?” “Axindweth says she’s been discovered,” he said. “She’s a very specific and rare kind of specialist—the details need not concern you—but there is apparently another of her kind in the palace. An agent for someone else. They found her and turned the human king against her. She’s decided to pull out.” “… Pull out?” Venli said. “I don’t understand that phrasing.” “She’s leaving! Or left. Perhaps days ago.” “Left the palace?” “The planet, you idiot.” RoW Prologue: Quote “Thank you, Brightness,” the cook said, taking the note. Before the man was out the door, Navani spotted the house steward—a white-bearded man with too many rings on his fingers—hovering in the stairwell to the palace proper. He was fidgeting with the rings on his left hand. Bother. “What is it?” she asked, striding over. “Highlord Rine Hatham has arrived, and is asking about his audience with the king. <snip> Instead, the messenger girl brought Navani over to the palace steward, his face a mask of grief. Eyes reddened, hands shaking, the aged man reached out for her and took her arm—as if for stability. Tears ran down his face, getting caught in his wispy beard. Seeing his emotion, she realized she rarely thought of the man by his name, rarely thought of him as a person. She’d often treated him like a fixture of the palace, much as one might the statues out front. Much as Gavilar treated her. “Gereh,” she said, taking his hand, embarrassed. “What happened? Are you well? Have we been working you too hard without—” “The king,” the elderly man choked out. “Oh, Brightness, they’ve taken our king! Those parshmen. Those barbarians. Those … those monsters.” That's when I connected Gereh in the Prologue (he told Navani about Gavilar) to the death in I-5 and Lift seeing a bloody chest wound and assuming it was a knife, but the missing jewelry made it likely something else. Edited January 13, 2025 by Treamayne SPAG/Clarity 2
BinarySecond Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 Just now, Treamayne said: missing jewelry I just realised Axwindeth probably has some method available to her of unkeying those metal minds. Bro got mugged for his gains.
Treamayne Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 I was updating the previous post with the Prologue reference when you replied. 3 minutes ago, BinarySecond said: I just realised Axwindeth probably has some method available to her of unkeying those metal minds. Bro got mugged for his gains. No need - Hemalurgy Provides. WoB: Spoiler Lucadaw If someone used Hemalurgy to take someones Feruchemical abilities would they be able to use that persons personal metalminds? Most relevantly perhaps to take that person's knowledge from their copperminds? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Edited for Length and Relevance Worldbuilders AMA (Dec. 7, 2015) 1
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